Posted on 02/16/2005 3:00:18 PM PST by swilhelm73
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Terry Francona was in a car accident yesterday, which you know if you happened to be listening to his appearance on WEEI. While on the radio via cellphone, the Red Sox manager was rear-ended. He was not injured, he said.
ADVERTISEMENT "I could see him coming," Francona said later in the day. "I was in a turn lane, and I could hear [tires] squealing. I braced. He hit me pretty hard.
"It's just a pain in the neck, not literally. I just have to get it fixed. The back rear passenger-side lights are all broken. Some dumb truck was trying to get through a yellow light."
Francona said he was traveling from City of Palms Park to a golf course to organize an event scheduled for today for his staff. Contrary to what he said on WEEI, the other driver did not have a Yankees bumper sticker on his vehicle.
"I was joking," said Francona.
The accident abruptly ended the interview, something Francona saw some humor in later in the day.
"Next time someone asks me a tough question or a dumb question," he said, "I'm going to say I had a car accident."
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